stevie kincheloe

Los Angeles Residency

Jan 2024-Feb 2025 | El Nido

These inv_siblE_ collisions

Group exhibition

Hunt Vintage | Los Angeles

Curated by stevie kincheloe

INCLUDED WORKS

RED SILK SERIES | PILLAR OF SALT II

Pillar of Salt II inhabits a moment of broken beauty—before letting go, before reconstruction, and before readiness to reenter the world. It is a meditation on the grief of what was or could have been, and on the quiet collapse of an old identity. The work gives form to the way we coexist with life and with one another in these fragile in-between states. It is both a self-portrait and a portrait of nearly anyone we pass on the street.

Set atop Delicate red silk, the installation becomes a contained world. The fractured frame of an antique wooden chair lies in piles of broken legs and torn upholstery. A vintage wool coat draped across the remains lingers like a ghost of the self. Scattered throughout are fragments of once-whole objects: shattered teacups and saucers, a broken antique silver cuff, a vintage pearl and silver ring gifted by a deceased grandmother, an antique porcelain snuff bottle, a silver carafe, and a small silver cup tipped onto its side.

At the center rests a round silver tray holding a pillar of pink Himalayan sea salt, referencing the biblical figure turned to salt upon looking back at her fractured life. Small stone columns—suggestive of former pillars of identity—appear toppled or suspended beneath the veil. The installation holds tension between sharpness and softness: the edges of broken china against cotton gauze threading through the scene. Two teacups, filled with tea, remain intact amid the destruction.

Pillar of Salt II asks what remains after life shakes us—what endures, and what of the self survives.

The Red Silk Series

The Red Silk Series exists as a window into the interior world. Giving form to the unseen, each iteration captures an intimate and fleeting moment along the cyclical spectrum of human experience—brokenness, lostness, nostalgia. The works function as an act of permission: allowing the self to be witnessed in states of vulnerability that are often hidden or deferred.

The red silk functions simultaneously as a symbol of blood, intimacy, and revelation, exposing what is most private while holding it with honor and care. Delicate by nature, the fabric establishes a visual and psychological boundary between interior and exterior worlds—what is lived inwardly and what is made visible. 

The translucent plastic that surrounds each installation operates both as a marker of “under construction” and as a veil—a cocoon suggesting that transformation is actively unfolding. It signals a process still in motion, holding space for what remains unresolved and honoring becoming over completion.

Accompanying the installations is a minimalist soundscape of dissonant humming. This added layer brings to life the far-reaching energetic and vibrational impact one’s experience and expression has on one’s environment. recording her own voice, stevie captures the sound of these exposed and intimate states of being .

Each iteration of the series is as much about what is included as what is withheld, responding to a distinct moment within this ongoing inquiry.  earlier iterations engage a quieter, more contained dialogue. In Pillar of Salt I, the language is more restrained and uniform: a whole antique chair draped in white linen, with a silver tray placed upon its seat and a single pillar of pink Himalayan salt. In subsequent works, this order begins to fracture, allowing complexity, rupture, and multiplicity to surface. Pillar of Salt II reveals sharp, fractured fragments of Self, with an almost apocalyptic quality, evoking the death of an old world or identity— the threshold before something new emerges.

Installation shots

NOW AND NOW AND NOW

GROUP Exhibition

El Nido | Los Angeles

Curated by Victoria Chapman and Stevie kincheloe

“REMEMBER, REMEMBER

THIS IS NOW AND NOW AND NOW

LIVE IT. FEEL IT. CLING TO IT.

I WANT TO BECOMING ACUTELY AWARE OF ALL I HAVE TAKEN FOR GRANTED.”

— SYLVIA PLATH

AN EXCERPT FROM THE DIARIES OF SYLVIA PTAH CIRCA 11 SEPTEMBER 1950

cycles of being and becoming

An existential film piece

CYCLES OF BEING AND BECOMING BRINGS THE VIEWER FACE TO FACE WITH A STRIKING VULNERABILITY AS ARTIST, STEVIE KINCHELOE, INVITES THEM INTO HER INTERIOR WORLD. INTIMATE, POIGNANT, AND HOPEFUL, THIS FILM PIECE CAPTURES AN INTUITIVE MOVEMENT PERFORMANCE AND AN UNRELENTINGLY RAW STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS SPOKEN WORD. SPEAKING TO THE WHOLLY HUMAN QUESTION OF EXISTENCE— SEASONS OF GROWTH, DEATH, AND REBIRTH, WHAT IS KNOWN AND UNKNOWN— THE PERCEPTION OF REALITY IS BLURRED AS THIS EXISTENTIALIST FILM PIECE BREACHES ANOTHER DIMENSION ALTOGETHER. 

My Self Being My Self

MULTI-MEDIA INSTALLATION

Exhibiting at El Nido | Los angeles

January 6th - March 23rd 2024

Curated by Victoria Chapman

A portrait in process, a collection of present moments across 4 months and 4 countries, “My Self Being My Self,” is a vulnerable world, an open door to the messy, incomplete, raw, unknown Self.

The Rose

Intuitive movement piece

The rose garden

the Natural history museum of los angeles

captured by victoria chapman

El royale winter edition

2024-2025 Group exhibition

Curated by Victoria Chapman

El Royale, built in 1927, is an iconic property steeped in history—ORIGINALLY, A HOTEL for Paramount studios, that became an apartment building with timeless charm. Designed by ARCHITECTS, Arnold A. Weitzman and William Douglas Lee, the same TEAM THAT BROUGHT US the LANDMARK, Chateau Marmont, EL ROYALE holds a unique connection to old Hollywood.

This season, VC Projects ORCHESTRATES a hub of creativity with THE 706 Winter Edition, a curated PRIVATE exhibition of contemporary art in THIS historic apartment setting.

Who Would I be

PERFORMANCE

Interdisciplinary artists Stevie Kincheloe and Steven McKellar explore the role intimate Relationship plays in individual growth, refinement, and identity. 

“Several entities exist in Relationship— those of the individual and one cultivated through the communion of the individuals. Through the cause and effect of experiences, mirroring, the development of the inner world, each of these entities are in a continuous loop of expansion and creation.” 

Using organic elements and electronic equipment and instrumentation, along with poetry, this accumulative performance piece is manipulated, layered, and looped as each artist responds to their own truth and the truth of the other. The experience coalesces through one amplifier, giving voice to both Individual and Relationship, creating a new identity all its own.

“Intimate relationship is something we choose each day, each moment. It is something we are free to hold on to or free to let go of.” 

Connecting the artists as they move in a circular pattern while they create, is the delicate thread of choice. Each holds in their hand the symbolism of that choice and the power to let go of it. 

The Relationship becomes integral to the growth of the individual as the growth of the individual renews the relationship. This begs the question, “Who would I be” without this third entity or the Other that acts as the mirror for Self. “Am I becoming more myself or becoming something entirely new?”

Showing at El Nido art space in Los Angeles

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the visible and the invisible being

Slow art day collaboration

Curated by Victoria chapman

SLOW ART DAY, ON APRIL 13, 2024, MARKED THE INITIATION OF PHASE II: THE VISIBLE AND THE INVISIBLE BEING. BUILDING ON THE PROGRESS MADE IN 2023, VICTORIA CHAPMAN AND STEVIE KINCHELOE SEAMLESSLY INTEGRATED SELECTED TEXT FROM MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY'S "THE VISIBLE AND THE INVISIBLE." THIS YEAR WELCOMED STEVEN DAYVID MCKELLAR, CONTRIBUTING HIS VOICE TO THE SPOKEN WORD SEGMENT.

IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR'S PERFORMANCE, A RITUAL UNFOLDED INVOLVING THE DELIBERATE TEARING AND RELEASE OF BOOK PAGES INTO THE AIR. THE WAY THEY DESCENDED AND SETTLED INFLUENCED THEIR LATER COLLECTION AND PERCEPTION. IN An intuitive ritual, CHAPMAN AND KINCHELOE GATHERED THE DISCARDED PAGES. ADOPTING A "SUNNY SIDE UP" APPROACH, THEY LIFTED PAGES FROM THE ORIGINAL TEXT, circling THE INITIAL PASSAGE ON EACH, RESULTING IN A POETIC AND INNOVATIVE COMPREHENSION OF THE HISTORICALLY RICH EXISTENTIAL TEXT. THIS TRANSFORMATIVE JOURNEY LED TO THE EVOLUTION OF THE PROJECT INTO A SPOKEN WORD FORMAT.

Gestura1

performance

This series seeks to make visible the importance of gesture in play. A collaboration of movement and sound between KARNEJ and Stevie Kincheloe, Gestura1 is brought to life using motion-tracking body sensors and modular electronics, creating an experience consisting of triggered vocalization and melodic tones.

Shown at El Nido in Los Angeles

Translations of being through sight and sound

MOVEMENT

Curated by victoria chapman

“As I listen, I move. As I move, I listen. And what I begin to hear is my truth.” 

 An interdisciplinary artist, Stevie Kincheloe understands movement as a conversation between the physical and metaphysical planes. What began as a path to opening that notoriously elusive portal of inspiration, her movement meditations are becoming a medium all their own. A dismantling of the masks and false faces we show to the world, the intuitive moment is channeling the raw expression of the truth, moment to moment.

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With Shane Guffogg and Shooka Afshar, Stevie was part of the 2022 exhibition “Translations of Being Through Sight and Sound,” a collaborative effort curated by Victoria Chapman, showing at the El Nido art space in Los Angeles.

In July 2022, Stevie was an artist in residence at the historic Villa Emma, participating in Shooka Afshar’s latest multi-medium composition, “Manipulation,” and several other performance pieces.

Kincheloe has a solo exhibition in 2023 in Los Angeles.

Homage to Sam Francis

Depth is All

PERFORMANCE

Curated by victoria chapman

As a part of Slow-Art Day, a ritual incorporating Sam Francis audio (selected text) layered within music by John Cage, ‘In a Landscape,’ observing pages from, ‘The Visible and the Invisible’ by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, ‘The Letters,’ between Freud and Jung, and I Ching, and for the senses, burning frankincense and myrrh.

The pages were released in ritualistic contemplation and later, carefully collected from the gallery floor in dedication for the next phase of this experiment. The first sentence of each page will be recorded as an audiobook.

Enjoy the entire online, group exhibition here.

Women/immigration/fight or flight

performance piece

with shooka afshar and dani green

villa emma residency | Rialmosso, Italy